Upgrade HD and Keep recovery partition x201

I've been trying to clone my HD to a bigger HD and keep the recovery partition working. I tried a lot of softwares, among which Acronis easy migrate.

Nothing really worked. At best I got a clone with all the original partitions but once I tried a full factory restore through thinkvatange button during startup, R&R would simply no find the files.

I finally managed to clone my HD using EasyUs Disk Copy

Since the x201s doesn't have a CD drive, I followed those instructions

"Follow this guide up to (and including) step 4: Hiren's Boot CD boot from USB guide"

Then extract the content of the Disc Copy image into the pen drive using softwares like Winrar or Winiso

"Open menu.lst (on the pen drive) and replace with the following: "
I have changed some instructions of the code as the original wasn't working for me.

Code:

timeout=10

splashimage=/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

foreground ffb443
background 89704b

title Start Disk Copy 2.3
kernel [COLOR="Red"]/bzImage[/COLOR] load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=204800 rw root=/dev/ram0

#vga=788 splash=silent
# rhgb quiet
initrd [COLOR="Red"]/initrd.img[/COLOR]

title Boot from first hard disk
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
chainloader +1

title Reboot
reboot  

Then go to the bios and set the boot sequence a move all usb boots first.
restart with your pen drive plugged and choose "Start Disk Copy 2.3"

The process should take about 2 hours depending on the size and the speed of your drives

 

Thanks for posting this. I am going to give it a try. I have been trying to do the same thing but was not able to get the full factory restore to work on a new hard disk.

 

I originally did a full disk image of the factory disk before configuring windows with Acronis True Home. I then restored the image to my new disk. Windows installed fine. However, I found I wasn't activated. I put back the original HD, and did a sector by sector image of just the system partition and restored it over the system partition on the new drive. Bingo, activation was back.

So, starting from scratch, I would do a sector by sector image of the original drive and restore to new drive. Should work fine.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=472929

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